WEBVTT - Hold The Line w/ Buck Sexton - 06-03-22 0:00:11.657 --> 0:00:14.937 You're listening to the Buck Sexton Joe podcast, make sure 0:00:14.937 --> 0:00:17.577 you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart Radio app 0:00:17.817 --> 0:00:22.857 or wherever you get your podcasts. President Joe Biden is 0:00:22.857 --> 0:00:25.177 making a plea to federal lawmakers to take action to 0:00:25.297 --> 0:00:28.457 curb gun violence in America. Of course, Democrats never explained 0:00:28.497 --> 0:00:31.577 how their legislation would stop the shootings. As a matter 0:00:31.577 --> 0:00:33.977 of fact, their ideas tend to have the opposite of 0:00:34.017 --> 0:00:36.737 their intended effect. And it's all good though, as long 0:00:36.737 --> 0:00:39.977 as they do something right. That's what they seem to think. Friends, 0:00:40.137 --> 0:00:48.617 it's time for hold the line. Welcome to hold on. 0:00:48.697 --> 0:00:51.817 I'm Buck Sexton. He had another chance last night, Joe Biden, 0:00:51.857 --> 0:00:54.137 President of United States. Better for worse. I think we 0:00:54.177 --> 0:00:56.937 all see it's pretty much always for worse. But he 0:00:56.937 --> 0:00:59.697 had an opportunity to bring together the American people and 0:00:59.977 --> 0:01:04.457 say some intelligent things, first of all, about the national 0:01:04.857 --> 0:01:07.457 healing process that should still be underwear in the aftermath 0:01:07.457 --> 0:01:10.857 of the horrific shooting in Uvalde, amongst some other shootings 0:01:10.897 --> 0:01:12.897 as well in recent days that having gotten nearly as 0:01:12.937 --> 0:01:17.577 much attention but also atrocious the shooting in Oklahoma, for example. 0:01:18.497 --> 0:01:21.977 But Joe Biden took the opportunity to give a speech 0:01:22.057 --> 0:01:25.977 that was rooted in emotional blackmail, a lot of untruth, 0:01:26.097 --> 0:01:29.977 a lot of misdirection, and was basically just an opportunity 0:01:30.457 --> 0:01:34.777 to attack his political opponents instead of actually looking at 0:01:34.817 --> 0:01:38.577 what would be serious about trying to stop violence in 0:01:38.617 --> 0:01:41.577 this country. Joe Biden wants to tell you how much 0:01:41.577 --> 0:01:44.497 he hates the NRA and the gun owners out there 0:01:44.497 --> 0:01:47.177 who don't want to go along with this. Here he says, though, 0:01:47.217 --> 0:01:52.257 that he has by partisan legislation to do something. This time, 0:01:53.417 --> 0:01:56.577 we have to take the time to do something, and 0:01:56.617 --> 0:02:00.537 this time it's time for the Senate to do something. 0:02:01.137 --> 0:02:03.657 But as we know, in order to do any get 0:02:03.697 --> 0:02:06.057 anything done in the Senate, we need a minimum of 0:02:06.137 --> 0:02:11.377 ten Republican senators. I support the partisan efforts that include 0:02:11.417 --> 0:02:14.497 small group of Democrats and Republicans centers trying to find 0:02:14.497 --> 0:02:18.697 a way, But my god, the fact that the majority 0:02:18.697 --> 0:02:22.297 of the Senate Republicans don't want any of these proposals 0:02:22.617 --> 0:02:26.377 even to be debated or come up for a vote, 0:02:27.377 --> 0:02:32.137 I find unconscionable. We can't fail the American people again. 0:02:33.657 --> 0:02:36.897 Do what, Joe, That's really what this comes in. Okay, 0:02:36.937 --> 0:02:38.977 do what we'll talk about some of the things that 0:02:39.017 --> 0:02:41.137 he said should be done, and see, the reason they 0:02:41.137 --> 0:02:43.177 want to get so much of the emotion out there 0:02:43.377 --> 0:02:46.817 is that they just want a mobilized mentality on this 0:02:46.897 --> 0:02:50.657 issue without having to explain how then the actions that 0:02:50.737 --> 0:02:55.657 they want taken wouldn't actually change anything that we've seen 0:02:55.777 --> 0:02:58.217 going on. I mean, for example, Biden mentioned there have 0:02:58.297 --> 0:03:01.217 been twenty mass shootings. Now, how you define mass shootings 0:03:01.257 --> 0:03:04.177 is something that people There are different definitions of it 0:03:04.177 --> 0:03:06.017 out there, but usually it's three or more people who 0:03:06.017 --> 0:03:09.857 have been shot. Often these mass shootings involve gang activity 0:03:10.097 --> 0:03:14.297 and other criminal activity that is completely in a different 0:03:15.177 --> 0:03:18.777 category from the kind of mass murder that we saw 0:03:19.137 --> 0:03:21.777 in that school in Uval Day. But here's Biden saying, 0:03:21.777 --> 0:03:24.377 there have been twenty mass shooting since you've all day watched, 0:03:24.697 --> 0:03:28.137 since Valdi just over a week ago, there have been 0:03:28.177 --> 0:03:32.137 twenty other mass shootings in America, each with four or 0:03:32.137 --> 0:03:37.457 more people killed or injured, including yesterday at a hospital 0:03:37.497 --> 0:03:41.937 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a shooter to liberally target a surgeon 0:03:42.777 --> 0:03:44.657 using an assault up and he bought just a few 0:03:44.697 --> 0:03:49.017 hours before his rampage that left a surgeon, another doctor 0:03:49.537 --> 0:03:55.737 receptionist and a patient dead and many more injured. That 0:03:55.817 --> 0:03:59.817 doesn't count the carnage we see every single day. It 0:03:59.897 --> 0:04:03.977 doesn't make the headlines. So how would any of the 0:04:04.097 --> 0:04:10.697 things which include an assault rifle, band, magazine limitation, How 0:04:10.737 --> 0:04:15.217 would any of these things that he wants, safe storage requirements, 0:04:15.777 --> 0:04:19.257 red flag laws, would they have stopped? He said there 0:04:19.257 --> 0:04:21.177 have been twenty mass shootings. Would they have stopped any 0:04:21.177 --> 0:04:24.057 of those mass shooting? If the answer is yes, Joe 0:04:24.097 --> 0:04:27.297 Biden should tell us how and which mass shooting would 0:04:27.337 --> 0:04:29.777 have been stopped. Let's just say, for example, the shooter 0:04:29.977 --> 0:04:34.097 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, had been told sorry, there's an assault 0:04:34.137 --> 0:04:37.417 rifle ban. In effect, shooter could have just bought a pistol, 0:04:37.617 --> 0:04:39.817 just as lethal, could have used two pistols, like the 0:04:40.457 --> 0:04:44.097 horrific mass shooting at Virginia Tech, where it was two pistols. 0:04:44.097 --> 0:04:45.537 It was not a rifle that was used in that 0:04:45.577 --> 0:04:47.897 mass shooting. In fact, if you look at the ford 0:04:47.937 --> 0:04:51.297 Hood shooting, another mass shooting, high casualty account, many debts 0:04:51.297 --> 0:04:56.377 attributed to that incident. That horrific incident, pistols, not a rifle. 0:04:56.457 --> 0:05:00.657 So changing the weapon isn't going to actually change the 0:05:00.737 --> 0:05:04.377 lethal intent of psychopathic hillers, So how would it have 0:05:04.377 --> 0:05:07.617 stopped anything? He doesn't even pretend that he has an 0:05:07.617 --> 0:05:10.257 answer to that. But what he does want, of worse 0:05:10.377 --> 0:05:14.337 is political mobilization. Here. He wants people who are Democrats 0:05:14.657 --> 0:05:16.977 and I guess some independence, although he's not winning over 0:05:16.977 --> 0:05:19.537 any independence with this from the numbers that we can see. 0:05:19.897 --> 0:05:23.777 He wants his political rivals, the Republican Party, to suffer 0:05:23.817 --> 0:05:27.257 the consequences of not going along with these proposals that 0:05:27.337 --> 0:05:31.617 quite clearly would do nothing to stop gun violence in 0:05:31.657 --> 0:05:34.537 any meaningful way. Why. I've been in this fight for 0:05:34.537 --> 0:05:38.217 a long time. I know how hard it is, but 0:05:38.337 --> 0:05:43.377 I'll never give up. Congress fails, I believe this time 0:05:43.417 --> 0:05:45.577 a majority of the American people won't give up either. 0:05:46.257 --> 0:05:48.257 I believe the majority of you will act to turn 0:05:48.297 --> 0:05:51.417 your outrage into making this issue central to your vote. 0:05:52.177 --> 0:05:58.097 Enough enough, No, he's wrong, that's not going to happen. 0:05:58.457 --> 0:06:02.617 But it does make the left wing anti gun base 0:06:02.857 --> 0:06:06.257 feel good about themselves. Really, so much of Democrat politics 0:06:06.297 --> 0:06:09.977 around guns is just they don't like gun owners in general, 0:06:10.137 --> 0:06:13.097 lawful gun owners, criminals Democrats always have a soft spot for, 0:06:13.577 --> 0:06:16.337 but lawful gun owners they do not like and they 0:06:16.377 --> 0:06:19.657 want to always remind everybody of that fact in whatever 0:06:19.697 --> 0:06:24.737 ways they can. Um Karine. Jean Pierre says that Biden 0:06:24.897 --> 0:06:27.177 knows how to get things done because he's taken on 0:06:27.217 --> 0:06:31.057 the gun lobby. Watch thanks. If the resident thinks that 0:06:31.137 --> 0:06:35.257 Congress must act immediately to end this apidemic of gun violence, 0:06:35.497 --> 0:06:37.017 is he going to bring any of the key players 0:06:37.017 --> 0:06:41.257 from Capitol Hill to the beach with him tonight? Okay? 0:06:41.777 --> 0:06:48.137 Um uh So, I don't have a whole thing that 0:06:48.257 --> 0:06:50.417 he knows how to get things done. He does, he does. 0:06:50.457 --> 0:06:55.137 I mean, he's he's beating the gun lobby before he has. 0:06:53.697 --> 0:06:57.937 But it's not it's not say this is how it's done, 0:06:58.057 --> 0:07:00.617 but it's not his thing. It's actually fact we saw 0:07:00.737 --> 0:07:04.297 he did that in the Senate during his crow Congress days, 0:07:04.297 --> 0:07:08.217 that he beat the gun lobby. Think about this beat 0:07:08.417 --> 0:07:13.977 the gun lobby as if there's some all powerful enemy 0:07:14.017 --> 0:07:17.097 out there. That's the gun lobby. The problem that they 0:07:17.137 --> 0:07:20.017 have is gun owners, as in Americans who have Second 0:07:20.017 --> 0:07:23.337 Amendment rights who don't agree with this nonsense. That's it. 0:07:23.377 --> 0:07:24.937 At the end of the day. By the way, since 0:07:24.937 --> 0:07:30.017 we're talking about ending or rather limiting mitigating violence to 0:07:30.057 --> 0:07:32.457 the greatest of your possible loss of life. Look at 0:07:32.457 --> 0:07:34.577 Democrat policies and cities all across the country. Do you 0:07:34.577 --> 0:07:36.857 think they're really strict about enforcing gun crimes when it 0:07:36.897 --> 0:07:40.097 comes to when it comes to people who are associated 0:07:40.137 --> 0:07:43.257 with gangs, people who have a previous criminal history. Not 0:07:43.377 --> 0:07:48.897 in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago. Oh no, no, 0:07:49.017 --> 0:07:52.817 they're letting them walk. In many cases, they're giving them 0:07:52.897 --> 0:07:55.377 plea bargains that they should never be handing to people 0:07:55.377 --> 0:07:57.857 with any kind of violent intent who are carrying firearms 0:07:57.857 --> 0:08:01.257 on the streets. But you know, social justice. And then 0:08:01.297 --> 0:08:06.377 there's this Oregon's decriminalization of drugs, for example, Democrats push 0:08:06.457 --> 0:08:09.377 this Oregan's first in the nation's scheme to decriminalize drugs 0:08:09.377 --> 0:08:12.057 and encourage those possessing them to seek medical help has 0:08:12.057 --> 0:08:15.697 been blighted with problems. They've had a seven hundred percent 0:08:15.737 --> 0:08:19.057 increase in overdoses in the past year seven x. 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If the Filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. 0:11:08.617 --> 0:11:11.897 If the Supreme Court of X we will expand it. 0:11:11.937 --> 0:11:14.337 And we will not rest until we have taken weapons 0:11:14.377 --> 0:11:18.017 of war out of circulation and our communities. That was 0:11:18.097 --> 0:11:21.097 New York Congressman Mondare Jones laying the blame for mass 0:11:21.097 --> 0:11:23.977 shootings squarely at the feet of Republicans who refuse to 0:11:23.977 --> 0:11:27.217 support new gun control regulations. On the other side of 0:11:27.257 --> 0:11:31.097 the aisle, Congressman Jim Jordan gave an equally impassioned response, 0:11:31.337 --> 0:11:33.417 take a look, now, we know where they want to go. 0:11:33.537 --> 0:11:36.337 They just said it in the filibus. Or expand the court, 0:11:36.577 --> 0:11:41.377 forget the Constitution, now we know Democrats blame guns, they 0:11:41.417 --> 0:11:47.297 criticize the NRA, they call Republicans names. Let's be honest, 0:11:47.737 --> 0:11:49.457 they've told us what they want to do. Their real 0:11:49.497 --> 0:11:53.097 beef is with the Second Amendment. A lot of heated words, 0:11:53.217 --> 0:11:55.417 but ultimately the federal government is unlikely to do all 0:11:55.457 --> 0:11:58.377 that much to address the issue of mass shootings. Author 0:11:58.377 --> 0:12:01.097 and columns David Marcus argues that both sides are at 0:12:01.137 --> 0:12:02.937 fault for a lack of action, and a piece on 0:12:02.977 --> 0:12:05.737 foxnews dot Com, he writes both the right and left 0:12:05.777 --> 0:12:08.177 in America responsible for a lack of action to bring 0:12:08.217 --> 0:12:11.017 mass shootings to an end. Lie of the right is 0:12:11.017 --> 0:12:13.097 that our Second Amendment and freedom to own guns are 0:12:13.097 --> 0:12:15.977 somehow not connected to our wildly high number of gun 0:12:16.017 --> 0:12:18.257 debts alive. A left is that we can achieve the 0:12:18.297 --> 0:12:21.057 results of Europe or Australia without gun confiscation and the 0:12:21.057 --> 0:12:24.657 destruction of a constitutional right. Interesting provocative stuff. Let's talk 0:12:24.697 --> 0:12:27.817 to about it. Join me now, Author and columist David Marcus. David, 0:12:27.817 --> 0:12:31.057 thanks for being with us, Thanks for having me so. 0:12:31.817 --> 0:12:35.057 In your piece, you wrote that the real conversation we 0:12:35.057 --> 0:12:37.857 should be having is this is a conversation we refuse 0:12:37.977 --> 0:12:40.777 to have a debate between accepting the horrible risks of 0:12:40.857 --> 0:12:43.697 freedom or of living our lives under greater control limitations 0:12:43.737 --> 0:12:46.337 the name of safety. It is a conversation that requires 0:12:46.337 --> 0:12:48.817 courage and one that we must no longer avoid. Freedom 0:12:48.897 --> 0:12:52.497 is dangerous. It is no use pretending it isn't end quote. 0:12:52.897 --> 0:12:55.657 Tell me more so, what do you you know philosophically? 0:12:55.857 --> 0:12:58.657 I think I understand the point that's being made. So 0:12:58.897 --> 0:13:01.857 what do you think about the call to action? A 0:13:01.897 --> 0:13:04.457 lot of people say we have to do something, Okay, 0:13:04.657 --> 0:13:07.977 what do we do? I think I have to be 0:13:08.057 --> 0:13:11.177 very careful about the call to action, and especially when 0:13:11.257 --> 0:13:15.417 it's rooted in emotion and fear. I think COVID taught 0:13:15.497 --> 0:13:21.617 us this. Really, they're legitimate competing interests here. I think 0:13:21.657 --> 0:13:25.457 that it's okay for gun rights advocates, and I consider 0:13:25.537 --> 0:13:29.497 myself to be one to acknowledge that if you make 0:13:29.537 --> 0:13:32.337 a choice to have hundreds of millions of privately owned 0:13:32.337 --> 0:13:34.737 guns in your society, there's going to be some gun 0:13:34.857 --> 0:13:38.377 violence as a result of that. But you have to 0:13:38.417 --> 0:13:41.377 treat that as an adult. I mean, you have to 0:13:41.417 --> 0:13:46.297 be able to get away from the immediate emotion of 0:13:46.497 --> 0:13:49.977 something horrible like a school shooting and think about the 0:13:50.017 --> 0:13:54.217 big picture, because what happens otherwise and what happens every 0:13:54.217 --> 0:13:57.737 time is for five days, everybody gets very upset and 0:13:57.857 --> 0:14:01.897 Congressman Jordan and Congressman Jones yell at each other and 0:14:01.937 --> 0:14:05.857 then it goes away and nothing happens. Yes, yes, and 0:14:06.217 --> 0:14:08.737 well I think it part David, because we had very 0:14:08.777 --> 0:14:11.577 similar discussions. And I remember this right after Sandy Hook 0:14:12.017 --> 0:14:15.217 and there were some states like New York for example, 0:14:15.257 --> 0:14:18.937 past I think the Safe Act that got rid of 0:14:18.977 --> 0:14:22.097 assault rifles you couldn't buy ansault rifles. State of New York, 0:14:22.497 --> 0:14:25.697 well their definition of assault rifle because first of all, 0:14:25.737 --> 0:14:28.457 there are a lot of weapons that are as effectively 0:14:28.537 --> 0:14:31.017 lethal as an assault rifle that are that are also rifles. 0:14:31.377 --> 0:14:34.737 So then there were cosmetic changes made to be compliant 0:14:34.737 --> 0:14:37.217 with New York regulation, and at the end of the day, 0:14:37.297 --> 0:14:40.257 it didn't do anything. So I think maybe one of 0:14:40.297 --> 0:14:43.057 the problems is that some of the we have to 0:14:43.057 --> 0:14:45.617 take action and then we say, okay, fine, here what 0:14:45.777 --> 0:14:46.857 is the list of things you want to do. And 0:14:46.977 --> 0:14:49.857 Joe Biden, for example, in the speech last night, talked 0:14:49.857 --> 0:14:55.417 about safe storage requirements. I mean, even theoretically, if that 0:14:55.457 --> 0:14:59.257 were to pass, who's going to enforce safe storage requirements? 0:14:59.297 --> 0:15:02.097 And so if somebody get if someone steals somebody's gun, 0:15:02.177 --> 0:15:04.257 let's say, and does something horrible with it, someone steals 0:15:04.257 --> 0:15:06.377 it out of their home. Where if if a teenager 0:15:06.417 --> 0:15:08.737 gets gets their parents gun and goes and shoot somebody 0:15:08.777 --> 0:15:11.217 with it, you're going to throw all the safe storage 0:15:11.377 --> 0:15:14.377 charge on top of the of the charge of You know, 0:15:14.457 --> 0:15:17.577 this is you start to wonder when you said we 0:15:17.657 --> 0:15:20.417 should have an adult conversation, at what point do we 0:15:20.417 --> 0:15:23.017 just say we can't actually control all human behavior and 0:15:23.137 --> 0:15:25.337 there are already a lot of laws that are trying 0:15:25.337 --> 0:15:27.737 to do that that fail to do that. No, I 0:15:27.737 --> 0:15:30.617 mean I think I think that's what you have to say, right, 0:15:30.657 --> 0:15:33.337 I mean I think that all of this low hanging fruit. 0:15:33.617 --> 0:15:36.057 I mean, look, I'm not going to say that it's silly. 0:15:36.097 --> 0:15:39.577 I think that as long as we're not throwing money away, 0:15:39.737 --> 0:15:42.017 if you want to spend more money on mental health, 0:15:42.057 --> 0:15:43.697 if you want to spend more money on these sort 0:15:43.737 --> 0:15:48.617 of like things around the margins, that's fine. But if 0:15:48.617 --> 0:15:51.417 you're talking about addressing the problem, and by the problem 0:15:51.497 --> 0:15:54.377 you mean we want perfect safety, We want nobody to 0:15:54.417 --> 0:15:57.817 ever get killed by guns. You'd have to repeal the 0:15:57.857 --> 0:16:01.577 Second Amendment. I mean, it's it's it's a deeply Unamerican 0:16:01.697 --> 0:16:05.577 way of looking at the problem, because the United States 0:16:05.657 --> 0:16:08.777 is founded on individual freedom, and really the main point 0:16:08.777 --> 0:16:11.417 of that piece is free them is dangerous. When you 0:16:11.457 --> 0:16:16.017 give people freedom, bad things can happen. Also, really wonderful 0:16:16.057 --> 0:16:19.777 things can happen, and that's the risk that you take. Yeah, 0:16:19.777 --> 0:16:21.297 I mean it does remind me at some level of 0:16:21.297 --> 0:16:25.337 the conversations early on from COVID, where you know, people 0:16:25.337 --> 0:16:28.937 were saying, oh, but you know, if we can create 0:16:28.977 --> 0:16:31.777 all these we can shut down the economy. Let's say, 0:16:31.897 --> 0:16:33.737 keep everybody at home. I think we all realized now 0:16:33.777 --> 0:16:36.457 that was just a completely asinine idea, but that is 0:16:36.497 --> 0:16:38.977 what you know, for a week, for two weeks, maybe 0:16:39.057 --> 0:16:41.257 to let the hospitals get capacity. That's how they sold 0:16:41.257 --> 0:16:42.897 it to us. And then it was just we're gonna 0:16:42.937 --> 0:16:45.577 wait out the virus. And everybody realized, well, that can't happen, 0:16:45.897 --> 0:16:47.497 and people like I don't remember if you were making 0:16:47.497 --> 0:16:48.817 this argument, I was making the argum at the time. 0:16:48.857 --> 0:16:50.697 You probably were two. A lot of people die in 0:16:50.737 --> 0:16:54.297 car crashes every year. You could eliminate all you could 0:16:54.337 --> 0:16:58.057 limit all traffic fatalities. If you made the speed limit 0:16:58.337 --> 0:17:00.617 fifteen miles an hour and you don't have to take 0:17:00.657 --> 0:17:02.937 away everyone's car, make the speed limit fifteen miles an 0:17:02.937 --> 0:17:05.537 hour and take away the car off anybody who breaks 0:17:05.537 --> 0:17:07.657 the speed limit, you'd basically maybe you still have, like 0:17:07.737 --> 0:17:10.537 you know, fifty traffic fatalities year. You wouldn't have ten 0:17:10.577 --> 0:17:12.737 thousand and fifteen thousand whatever it is we see a 0:17:12.777 --> 0:17:15.577 year and a year out. People don't want to do that. No, 0:17:15.977 --> 0:17:18.857 And when you made that point early on in COVID, 0:17:18.977 --> 0:17:21.817 you were called a ghoul. Right, And it's exact same 0:17:22.137 --> 0:17:26.977 it's the exact same playbook, right, Because if today you say, listen, 0:17:28.297 --> 0:17:34.017 the Second Amendment is worth some really horrible things that 0:17:34.097 --> 0:17:36.897 may happen as a result of it, you're called a ghoul. Right. 0:17:37.017 --> 0:17:41.177 It really is the same playbook. And unfortunately you can't 0:17:41.257 --> 0:17:44.817 base public policy on the idea of saving every single 0:17:44.897 --> 0:17:49.697 human life. It's it won't work, It'll usually backfire. And 0:17:49.737 --> 0:17:52.297 again it's it's just not how adults deal with these 0:17:52.377 --> 0:17:55.257 kinds of situations. What do you What did you think? 0:17:55.297 --> 0:17:57.217 I mean? I'm meant to ask you this the top, 0:17:57.257 --> 0:18:00.257 but I found your broader philosophical point something we should 0:18:00.257 --> 0:18:03.777 dive into right away. The speech Biden gave last night, 0:18:03.817 --> 0:18:05.817 does he really think that anything is going to be done? 0:18:05.857 --> 0:18:07.457 It just feels to me like this is the playbook. 0:18:07.457 --> 0:18:10.897 They give the speech, laundry list of things, basically nothing happens, 0:18:11.017 --> 0:18:14.577 and then they just go back to what we hate. Republican. Yeah, 0:18:14.617 --> 0:18:16.737 I mean, he had two choices last night. He could 0:18:16.737 --> 0:18:20.897 have delivered a very narrow speech tailored to that low 0:18:20.937 --> 0:18:25.257 hanging fruit, like you know, background checks, red flag laws 0:18:25.257 --> 0:18:27.617 that the bipartisan group in the Senate is working on, 0:18:28.017 --> 0:18:30.777 and and sort of tried to shepherd that through. That's 0:18:30.817 --> 0:18:32.617 not what he did, As you say, he gave the 0:18:32.937 --> 0:18:37.177 classic Democrat speech that says, I'm not going to take 0:18:37.177 --> 0:18:39.297 your guns away. Here's fifteen ways I'm going to take 0:18:39.297 --> 0:18:42.177 your guns away that you know we've been hearing for, 0:18:42.897 --> 0:18:45.657 you know, decades. The one in particular that I really wish, 0:18:45.897 --> 0:18:50.537 I just it is stupid, almost beyond comprehension, is the 0:18:50.617 --> 0:18:53.057 Second Amendment is not absolute. And I sit here in 0:18:53.097 --> 0:18:56.937 New York City where you'd have to to get a pistol, 0:18:57.137 --> 0:18:59.617 not even an assault rifle, a pistol. You're looking at 0:18:59.657 --> 0:19:04.017 about a nine to twelve months wait, lots of processing, 0:19:04.177 --> 0:19:07.897 fingerprinting about a four or five hundred dollars processing fee. 0:19:08.017 --> 0:19:09.697 So you can get a gun, you could only keep 0:19:09.697 --> 0:19:11.977 it home. You cannot carry, and you have to keep 0:19:11.977 --> 0:19:13.257 in a lock box, and you have to keep the 0:19:13.297 --> 0:19:15.497 ammunition in a separate lock box, and you can't even 0:19:15.577 --> 0:19:17.417 leave the city of New York with it. I don't 0:19:17.457 --> 0:19:20.257 think that's an absolute right. I think I think we're 0:19:20.257 --> 0:19:24.737 in the land of stupidity when that's even talked about. No, 0:19:24.897 --> 0:19:27.257 I mean, look, I think that's exactly right. And I 0:19:27.657 --> 0:19:30.817 do think that, you know, it may be that people 0:19:30.817 --> 0:19:33.617 in New York City don't want everybody on the subway 0:19:33.657 --> 0:19:36.057 carrying a gun. I mean that that might not be 0:19:36.137 --> 0:19:38.697 what people in New York want, And that's okay, right, 0:19:38.817 --> 0:19:41.297 And we have different laws in different states, and and 0:19:41.337 --> 0:19:43.777 these are also sort of arguments on the margins where 0:19:43.777 --> 0:19:46.617 I get that there's people from other states who want 0:19:46.617 --> 0:19:49.297 to be able to carry in New York. And I 0:19:49.297 --> 0:19:52.097 don't know, like like those are debates that we can have, um. 0:19:52.657 --> 0:19:55.617 But you know, on the big on the big issue, 0:19:56.777 --> 0:19:58.857 we need gun rights in the United States and we 0:19:58.897 --> 0:20:01.577 need to accept that. You know, that comes with some risks. 0:20:02.817 --> 0:20:05.657 It's true. Good boy, David, thanks for being with us, 0:20:05.617 --> 0:20:11.217 appreciate it, thanks for having me. 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